Thursday, January 31, 2013

This doesn't make any sense at all

The Fontana Unified School District Police Department purchased 14
AR-15 assault weapons to protect students in response to
recent shootings across the country, but some school leaders and
citizens think it’s a step in the wrong direction.

FUSD Superintendent Cali Olsen-Binks approved the acquisition of the
rifles, which are being stored on campuses in locked safes for
responding police officers in the event of an attack.

Wait a minute. Let's leave aside the larger argument about whether it's a good idea to turn schools into armories like they're the sets of Die Hard 8: Die Harder Than Fuck Calculus Problems, because people that think that heavily armed schools are good will think that and people who think that schools should generally be free of assault weapons will think that. PUSSIES. Oh, sorry. Anyway, no matter how you cut it, THIS DON'T MAKE ANY DAMN SENSE.

Read it again. The AR-15s will be kept in locked safes on campus for responding officers. A few thoughts:

1. What if the School Shooter who this is apparently designed to address is somewhere between the doorway of the school and the Locked Safes? Those AR-15s won't be doing much good. But, bigger issue:

2. DON'T FONTANA POLICE OFFICERS HAVE THEIR OWN GUNS? I mean, REALLY? They have to rely on potential shooting targets to supply their own firepower? Doesn't this imply that every 7-Eleven in Fontana should have a couple of AKs in a locked safe, just in case they're robbed? If the Fontana Police don't have their own guns, for Chrissake, BUY THE POLICE SOME FUCKING GUNS, not the schools. If there's one group of people I don't mind seeing armed, it's the police.

3. I would seriously look into any financial ties between "FUSD Superintendent Cali Olsen-Binks" and whoever is supplying the guns. I wouldn't be surprised if the owner of the local gun reseller is Mr. Cali Olsen-Binks.

2 comments:

"Both Green and Leticia Garcia said that several of the initial ten names required to set the petition up for the recall are related or close friends of Superintendent Cali-Olsen Binks, and her mother-in-law, long-standing board member Kathy Binks. They say it represents a clear case of nepotism and conflict of interest."

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TK lives and works in San Francisco. He occasionally travels to places east of the Caldecott Tunnel, but not very often. His interests include bars, reality TV, and irony. Things seem to be going fine.